COOKIES

In order to offer the best possible service to users, TUSTING also monitors the patterns of usage of pages on our site. This enables us to identify the most popular offers and articles and to optimize our performance. This data is non-personal and may include unique URLs visited within the Site, browser type and IP address. Most non-personal data is collected via cookies or other analysis technologies.

Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. At TUSTING we use cookies to keep track of what you have in your basket, so to order products on our site, you need to have cookies enabled. Most web browsers have cookies enabled by default and each browser is different, so check the 'Help' menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone's handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences. Please rest assured that cookies can't harm your computer, and we don't store personally identifiable information such as names or credit card details in the cookies we create.

General

Cookie Name

Cookie Description

cart

The association with your shopping cart.

catefory_info

Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly.

compare

The items that you have in the Compare Products list.

currency

Your preferred currency

customer

An encrypted version of your customer id with the store.

customer_auth

An indicator if you are currently logged into the store.

customer_info

An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to.

customer_segment_id

Stores the Customer Segment ID

external_no_cache

A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not.

frontend

You sesssion ID on the server.

guest-view

Allows guests to edit their orders.

last_category

The last category you visited.

last_product

The most recent product you have viewed.

newmessage

Indicates whether a new message has been received.

no_cache

Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache.

persistant_shopping_cart

A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site.

poll

The ID of any polls you have recently voted in.

polln

Information on what polls you have voted on.

recentlycompared

The items that you have recently compared.

stf

Information on products you have emailed to friends.

store

The store view or language you have selected.

user_allowed_save_cookie

Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.

viewed_product_ids

The products that you have recently viewed.

wishlist

An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist.

wishlist_cnt

The number of items in your Wishlist.

wp_set_auth_cookie

This function sets the cookie on the blog

wp_clear_auth_cookie

This function will delete the cookie from the client browser. This happens when the user clicks on the Logout link in the Administration interface.

auth_redirect

This function also utilizes the cookies. Checks whether the cookie is present on the client browser. If it is not, the user is sent to the wp-login.php login screen. After logging in, the user is sent back to the page he or she attempted to access.

comment_author

This function also utilizes the cookies. When a visitor posts a comment, a visitor won't need to re-type all their name again when they want to leave another comment.

comment_author_email

This function also utilizes the cookies. When a visitor posts a comment, a visitor won't need to re-type all their email address again when they want to leave another comment.

comment_author_url

This function also utilizes the cookies. When a visitor posts a comment, a visitor won't need to re-type all their url again when they want to leave another comment.

Twitter (3rd Party)

Cookie name

Expires after

Description of cookie

guest_id

24 months

Identifiers of the Twitter account or guest.

k

1 week

This is used for user IP tracking within Twitter to determine whether a user is logged in or logged out.

pid

24 months

Used by the Tweet button for Twitter

Facebook (3rd Party)

Cookie name

Expires after

Description of cookie

datr

24 months

This identifies the web browser being used to connect to Facebook independent of the logged in visitor. This cookie plays a key role in Facebook's security and site integrity features

c_user

30 days

This contains the user ID of the currently logged in visitor. The lifetime of this cookie is dependent on the status of the "keep me logged in" checkbox. If the checkbox is set, the cookie expires after 30 days of inactivity, otherwise the cookie is a session cookie and will therefore be cleared when the browser exits

lu

24 months

This is used to manage how the login page is presented to the visitor. The lifetime is the same as c_user

xs

30 days

This contains the session number, a session secret and an optional "secure" flag (if visitor has enabled secure browsing feature). The lifetime is the same as c_user

locale

7 days

This contains the display locale of the last logged in visitor on this browser. This is set after the visitor logs out

Google+ (3rd Party)

Cookie name

Expires after

Description of cookie

NID

6 months

A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information.

HSID

10 years

A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information.

SSID

10 years

A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information.

APISID

10 years

A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information.

SAPISID

10 years

A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information.

SID

10 years

A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information.

BEAT

1 day

A persistent cookie that is used to track Google+ (+1) status

ULS

End of session

A session cookie used to track Google+ (+1) status

Google Analytics (Third party)

Cookie name

Expires after

Description of cookie

_utma

2 years

This keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred

_utmb

30 minutes

A timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site

_utmc

End of session

A timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the site - having waited 30 minutes for another pageview to happen, and if it doesn't, it expires

_utmz

6 months

This keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keywords used, and where in the world the site was accessed from

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